I’m not ignoring it, I’ve addressed it many times. That’s not what the above article is about however, nor is it what I commented about originally.

Oh ok I see. The problem is I read the article above and also scanned the comments. I guess you just watched the video. Dunno.

Yeah this issue pops up a lot or else I wouldn’t have been inspired to comment. So creepy that this is an issue to people.

OF COURSE IT IS. EVERY TIME A FATHER KISSES HIS SON ON THE MOUTH A DEMON ESCAPES FROM HELL.

I don’t have much to say as far as the performative aspect of it. Off my radar. Celebrities have weird lives. I personally am not even on Facebook and wouldn’t let my kids be either if they were old enough.

Disagree.

We all have awkward moments. There’s about 8 million articles now dissecting this one. You don’t think that’s strange?

Exactly. I mean if you didn’t have an issue you wouldn’t even notice it.

America is pent up, for sure. I feel like objecting to kissing kids on the mouth is indicative of repressed issues for sure. Hence my problem with articles like this.

I’m with you on everything you say here. I kissed my dad on the mouth until I started feeling weird about it. Then I stopped and now that I’m grown we do it again. Sounds about right to me. My kids are 3 and 4 so not an issue yet. I had plenty of relatives chide me as Tom chides his son here and absent any other…

No that’s not true. Kids are notoriously idiotic.

Yeah a single shot can hit a few things and maybe she dropped it after the first shot and it fired again? Who knows. I wasn’t expecting this to be an accident either but I have to say I’m glad to hear it.

I’m not a fan of the pressuring for a kiss BUT I will say I’m not alarmed by it. Parents do shit like this as kids pull away. There’s a better way to go about it but seriously I don’t think this is up there with a lot of the really harmful coded stuff it’s being lumped with.  

It’s a weird moment sure. But like, giggle. Launching an armada of inappropriate treatises on kiss protocol is a) crazy b) way way weirder and c) sadly, totally predictable. Remember the article about the twin boys kissing? This topic gets rehashed every time a young boy kisses anything platonically it seems and I…

I’m commenting heee on the subject of children and parents kissing on the mouth. I don’t think forced affection is ok but I also don’t think that’s what this incident and certainly not this article is about. A parent chiding a preteen child to be more affectionate, as a response to them pulling away as they enter…

Not that Gisele being Brazilian wouldn’t affect the behavior of all three kids (of course it would) but this particular son is Bridget Moynihan’s.

My son is 4, and I literally just had to tell him to stop getting out of bed for more hugs and try to sleep. Kids pull away when they get older. You have to find a way to let them do that while also not letting them spend 5 years locked in their room never making eye contact with you. I don’t think anything going…

Yes that’s the takeaway.

Totally agree. My son has developed this ritual where we hug, unhug, kiss (must be perfect), nose kiss, and then a perfect kiss again. Typing this out has made me realize I gotta get this on tape for when he’s pretending not to know me in public.

Ha ok.